Leah Stern was born in 1928 in Israel and lived in Bnei Brak. When she married she moved to Canada with her husband and lived in the United States (Passaic, JN) for many years. Upon the death of her husband in 1994, she moved back to Bnei Brak to be near her daughter.
On July 30, 1997 she travelled to Jerusalem to shop in the Mahneh Yehuda market when two suicide bombers exploded themselves, killing 16 people, including Leah.
